Overload

Coproducer Teatro Nacional D. Maria II nell’ambito di APAP – Performing Europe 2020, Programma Europa Creativa dell’Unione Europea in cooperation with Centrale Fies_art work space, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG and with support by Comune di Firenze, Regione Toscana, Mibact, Funder 35, Sillumina – copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura.

Premiere 2016
Running time 1 hour 10 minutes. No interval.
Performance is in Italian with Slovenian surtitles.

Author of concept and director Sotterraneo
Dramaturg Daniele Villa
Costume designer Laura Dondoli
Lighting designer Marco Santambrogio
Sound designer Mattia Tuliozi
Props Francesco Silei
Graphic designer Isabella Ahmadzadeh
Executive producer Giulia Messia 

Cast
Sara Bonaventura, Claudio Cirri, Lorenza Guerrini, Daniele Pennati, Giulio Santolini

1 paragraph, 184 words, 1,158 characters. Around 1 hour and 10 minutes. Can you read this text in one breath?

Attention is a form of alienation – the point is to understand what alienates us. This is why we always look lost when we’re looking for something, even though this expresses only through some unnoticeable and intangible gestures. We don’t understand who listens and who speaks, who works and who plays, who really is searching and who is merely lost. Have you come to this show without batting the eye? Really? Isn’t the attempt in concentration on a single act at the same time completely unbearable? Look around – how many things draw your attention? And now look at yourself from high above – do you see yourself? The surface of the most densely inhabited regions in the world is covered with messages, images and sounds. Among them, people move, establish relationships, sleep. Sometimes, one can hear louder sounds, a fog of distractions sucks them up quickly, flashes them and transforms them in that flash. The planet seems way too loud and dispersed to survive – even the glaciers melt too slowly to retain the uninterrupted attention of an individual. Let’s return to the origins and observe more carefully how we mutate and change into speeding points. 

Awards

• The performance received the UBU Award for Best Performance of 2018, presented by the UTE European Theatrer Association.
• In 2016, it was awarded with the Best Guest Performance at the Be Festival.

The performance is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana (Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Lubiana) as part of the 19^th Italian Language Week.